University of Michigan spinoff ONL Therapeutics receives federal designation...
Tom Henderson - ONL Therapeutics Inc., an Ann Arbor-based spinoff from the University of Michigan, has received a crucial orphan-drug designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its...
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MSU graduate returns to East Lansing to run startup that treats jaundice
Tom Henderson - Alexa Jones had the entrepreneurial bug.So, a year and a half into what promised to be a lucrative career with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., where she was a foreign-exchange analyst in...
View ArticleUM spinoff Lycera starts drug trials; is sale of company next?
Tom Henderson - Lycera Corp., a University of Michigan spinoff developing drugs that target cancer and diseases of the immune system, has started human trials that could lead to the sale of the...
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SPLT, Genomenon, EntroCIM win at Google Demo Day in Detroit
Tom Henderson - SPLT, Genomenon Inc. and EntroCIM were the winners Tuesday night at the annual Google Demo Day at Grand Circus' headquarters in downtown Detroit. Google officials in Mountain View,...
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Tour takes look at Detroit as leader in solving social ills with innovation
Marti Benedetti - There's a silver lining to Detroit's abundance of social problems: It's becoming a leader in social innovation. Its leadership role in helping solve difficult societal problems with...
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Innovation, talent and our next candidate for governor?
Daniel Duggan - Matt Simoncini for governor? Probably not, he said. But he gave a rousing speech on the importance of Detroit, both to an auto supplier like Lear Corp. (of which he is president and...
View ArticleThird Techweek offers a variety of events
Crain's Detroit Business - Techweek Detroit returns May 2 for its third annual weeklong celebration of technology and innovation at a variety of venues around town. Two years ago, Techweek founders...
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Michigan races to stay in the driver's seat on autonomous vehicle legislation
Lindsay VanHulle - LANSING — In 2013, Michigan legislators adopted the state's first laws for driverless vehicles, allowing them to share the road with live motorists only while being tested. That...
View ArticleOpinion: Autonomous vehicles need set of common standards
Autonomous cars, when they hit the consumer market, will come fully loaded with a host of liability concerns. Ironing out those issues — such as who is responsible for a crash when software is driving...
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3-D in R&D makes an imprint on automotive suppliers
David Sedgwick Automotive News - It seemed like a cute stunt two years ago when a little-known startup called Local Motors took to the streets of Las Vegas with a car built largely of parts made with a...
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Civilla nonprofit examines social issues
Marti Benedetti - A new nonprofit is designing around people's needs to make their lives better — or, at least, a little easier. "We talk to people and design (a project) to meet their needs," said...
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Sales near for Delphinus ultrasonic breast cancer detector
Tom Henderson - Delphinus Medical Technologies Inc. is about to graduate. And, after 17 years of research and development and three rounds of venture capital totaling $58.5 million, it will start...
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Brian Rudolph, 25
Laura Cassar - Brian Rudolph didn't set out to revolutionize pasta. A finance major from Emory University, Rudolph had a desire to eat gluten-free and a certain fearlessness in the kitchen. But when...
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Tyson Gersh, 26
Laura Cassar - It's all been incremental for Tyson Gersh, co-founder and president of the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, a volunteer-based farm in Detroit's North End. Over the past five years,...
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How metro Detroit banks are investing in digital age
Tom Henderson - What do tiny Clarkston State Bank and big Ally Bank have in common? Almost nothing except their approaches to banking in the 21st century. For both, mobile banking and the internet are...
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Futurist aims to help business leaders think farther down the road
Tom Henderson - Brian David Johnson, who in January left his post as engineer and futurist at Intel Corp. to become futurist-in-residence for the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona...
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Planet M aims to shift Michigan's orbit from manufacturing to mobility
Dustin Walsh - U.S. manufacturing jobs are never coming back. This is a reality too painful to recognize, but too true to ignore. Michigan, while still the world's largest automotive epicenter, is...
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Opinion: As head of Automation Alley, Rogers aided in 'mobility' shift
When Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson launched Automation Alley in 1999, we noted that the technology initiative sounded more like a high-tech bowling alley than a technology push.But Ken...
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Opting for apps: How to know if one is right for your business
Rachelle Damico Special to Crain's Detroit Business - Mobile apps are becoming more and more important as business tools. Small, second-stage and large companies are experimenting with mobile apps as a...
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